Kikagaku Moyo "Forest of Lost Children"

Country: Japan
Sub Genre: Psychedelic, Space Rock
Label:  Beyond Beyond is Beyond
Format: CD, digital, vinyl, cassette
Release date: May 20, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. Semicircle 03:15
2. Kodama 04:20
3. Smoke and Mirrors 07:16
4. Streets of Calcutta 03:55
5. Hem 03:51
6. White Moon 08:24

Line-up: 
Tomo Katsurada - Vocal, Guitar
Daoud Popal - Guitar
Ryu Kurosawa - Sitar
Kotsu Guy - Bass
Go Kurosawa - Drums, Voice

Description/Reviews: 

Ostensibly a psych record, “Forest of Lost Children” weighs heavily to the progressive side which makes the attention, and the record, ultimately refreshing. As good as records are from outfits endlessly influenced by overdone usual suspects, it’s energizing that Kikagaku Moyo have generated such fervor with an album that leans heavily to worldly and folky prog. That said, they still light it up when they want to as on the rhythmic gallop of “Hem,” but there’s an airiness and nimbleness running through the heat as much as the mellower places that makes it a breath of fresh air. “Smoke and Mirrors” is equally laid back, smokey and fiery. So is “Street of Calcutta” in a whole other way that shows their wide influences as much as it adds even more dynamics to the record. Rather than showcasing their extremes using the trite and true method of loud/soft/loud/soft, Kikagaku Moyo bleed it all across, on single cuts or in the sequencing of the tracks.

  Read the full review at mratavist.com

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